[130798] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Stateless Configuration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rod James Bio)
Fri Oct 15 03:11:16 2010
In-Reply-To: <F36A434B-4A58-478A-901D-F3C3A288F373@genius.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:11:07 +0800
From: Rod James Bio <rjubio@gmail.com>
To: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
That's my setup right now. The problem is the machine is not configuring it=
s
IPv6 address with RA already turned on. I'm guessing that the flag set on
the UTM router advertisement messages is wrong. May I know the default flag=
s
use on a cisco router? Thanks.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Franck Martin <franck@genius.com> wrote:
> You need all to be part of the same Ethernet network. So if this UTM can
> act as a bridge/switch you should be ok. Otherwise the RA broadcasts need=
to
> reach your device so it guesses the network and add it's Mac address to t=
he
> network and make an ipv6 address.
>
> I would say RA is a bit like DHCP in your case in terms of network topolo=
gy
> but beside that RA is simpler (no leases table).
>
> Toute connaissance est une r=E9ponse =E0 une question
>
> On 15/10/2010, at 17:49, Rod James Bio <rjubio@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > First time poster here. I would just like to ask what are the flags o=
n
> > router advertisement to enable a host to autoconfigure its IPv6 address=
.
> > There is this device that I'm configuring that I cant get RA to work. I
> was
> > able to work out the connectivity from the device to the IPv6 internet,
> but
> > the problem is host behind this device is not getting its unique global
> ipv6
> > address. The device is a cyberoam UTM.
> >
> > Thanks! Rod Bio.
>
